This has no actual real theory behind it, but I was just thinking how cool it'd be if prison abolitionists brought in therapeutic boarding schools into their movement too. I was rather "liberal" most of my adolescence but when I was in one of these fucked up places, I remember thinking "Wow prisons should never have existed" because it felt like that -- a prison. Going back, that's probably one of the few experiences that made me realize how fucked the system is.
Idk I just think it'd be a wonderful collab of two movements and their goals fit so well together.
Also idk where to put this with main is gone so since c/cth is the new main yall can deal with it
Fell down a rabbit hole on the troubled teens industry a while back. It's horrific and in some cases actually worse than prison. You have zero rights in these places and are basically tortured for sometimes years until you can get out.
Oh yeah, pure absolute torture sometimes. I knew someone who had been there since they were 13 and then left at 18, no real world experience at all, having been put in isolation for weeks on-end. Lots of just "sit here and stare at the wall all day to prove you have self-control." It's truly hell. Like it's no SURPRISE such a system exists, but I can't believe it's taken until Paris Hilton spoke out for people to even know these places exist.
I had zero clue these places existed until someone on here posted the Joe versus the Elan School webcomic, which everyone should go read. Like I said, there's prisons out there that a more humane than these "schools".
I went to a place similar. See my comment in this post below. Vile places.
I knew someone who had been there since they were 13 and then left at 18,
Same. It is really bad.
I went to a a really discriminatory boarding school for high school (13-18). The brainwashing is real. It's almost cult like with its policies and internal politics.
CW: racism and sexual violence, abuse, physical violence. Seriously don't read this, it's worse than you think.
The school was really racist towards black kids. Soccer wasn't allowed as a sport, because it was seen as a "black sport" they would never admit to that, and come up with 500 reasons why soccer wasn't allowed, but it ultimately boiled down to that.
Also the older kids were put defacto in charge of the younger kids, which led to regular beatings, physical violence and terrible initiation nonsense. The place tried to brainwash us into thinking it was "the best school in the world", and so forth.
Also it was discovered a teacher was guilty of statutory rape of students and the school covered it up after "letting her leave on her own terms" . Another teacher was guilty of sexually assaulting and harassing women teachers and they also covered it up after "he found another job". Absolutely vile.
Abolish strict boarding schools and the troubled teen industry. Absolutely vile places.
Because most of the stuff about psych wards was propaganda designed to make it easier to completely destroy mental healthcare in the US, which they did. And now they just send those people to prison or kill them or whatever.
These industries get a shit ton money, and a lot of the people who could get them shut down get kickback money. It’s all fucked.
Having worked for a "christian rehab" that also does troubled teen-ish shit, I can 100% agree. As a former addict, its horrifying to me that we can pretend as a society that these programs exist to help people rather than to extract value at the expense of the vulnerable, and while there are a few out there that do good work, the ease at which children are taken advantage of is infuriating to a degree I am unable to quantify easily in words..
The craziest part was my program advertised how GREAT it was for kids struggling with addiction... Yeah right. It also forced the kids who have never done anything to participate in the addiction programs. Complete joke. And then most kids end up becoming addicts when they leave to cope with it all.
Yeah, kids with addiction is a very, very, very specific thing. Marketing yourself as "oh hey, we also deal with kids that like crack!" is usually a solid sign of "we have no fucking clue what we're doing"
thank you 🥺 working on a longer, more informative post on the TT industry to post on here eventually too. leftists need to know about this horrible system.
Oh go ahead, I wasn't even the one who stickied it in the first place haha
Ope, I can't, it was stickied by someone with higher permissions.
Can you do it as a sitemod?
